Note 33 — Chapter XI

It was these men who surrounded the imperial chancellery on December 24th, held the cabinet members there incommunicado by severing the telephone wires, and compelled the government to grant their wage demands and to permit them to retain the royal stables as barracks. They also helped loot the palace. The government had to disarm them during the second "Bolshevik week" in Berlin early in March, when twenty-four of them were summarily executed.